Lakers' Defense Surprises Critics, Optimism for Future

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00:00and the Lakers are only gonna get better.

00:02And one thing about the Lakers

00:03that I'm really surprised about,

00:05and I'll admit, you know, I obviously like the deal,

00:08like, you know, you got Luka Doncic,

00:10I got there from the Laker perspective,

00:13but I was part of the cynical crew that said,

00:17yeah, how's this team gonna play defense?

00:20Right, you got Luka and LeBron on the floor,

00:22but like how they're gonna play defense,

00:24but Luka was called out so much.

00:27So not only did Dallas like trade him,

00:30for a player, like they might as well have traded him

00:32for Joel Embiid, like, are you kidding me?

00:34Anthony Davis is the dude, like, you know,

00:37we're gonna trade one of the best players

00:39in a modern era in NBA history,

00:41and Luka Doncic, and yeah, he is that good.

00:44You know, okay, fine, you wanna trade him,

00:46but like, let's get like eight first round draft picks back.

00:50You know what I mean?

00:51Let's absolutely like pull a Herschel Walker deal here.

00:55Like, honestly, you could have, speaking of Dallas,

00:57right, like you could have, point blank.

01:00You tell the league, you know, in the off season,

01:01listen, we're trading Luka Doncic.

01:03What do you wanna offer us?

01:04Like leading into the draft,

01:06that you don't think you would have gotten more

01:07than Anthony Davis and the picks that they got?

01:10Like, come on, right?

01:11It was absolutely ridiculous, but not only that,

01:14but then they pile on by calling him fat.

01:17Then they pile on and basically call him an alcoholic.

01:20Right, like they basically said, listen,

01:22you're a fat drunk that's out of shape,

01:24and we never thought he was gonna change.

01:26You notice he's already thinner in Los Angeles, right?

01:30Like he's playing defense right now.